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TRUCKERS' SHORTAGE * USA
* Comment: Trucking association estimates 239,000 drivers needed by 2022
Arlington,VA,USA -DC Velocity, by Mark B. Solomon -7 Nov 2012: -- The nation's truckload sector will find itself short of hundreds of thousands of drivers by 2022 unless current trends change, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) said in a report released on Monday... The report, "Driver Shortage Update November 2012," forecast a shortage of 239,000 drivers in 10 years. Most of the shortage will occur among truckload carriers, whose drivers travel long distances and can be away for weeks at a time. By contrast, the less-than-truckload (LTL), private fleet, and dedicated contract carriage segments—whose drivers operate shorter runs and are home more frequently—will not face anywhere near the same issue, the report said... About 90 percent of truckload executives said they are already having trouble recruiting qualified drivers, ATA said. The situation is bound to worsen as the trucking industry feels the twin impact of the new driver hours-of-service regulations, which are slated to take effect next summer, would result in a 3-percent cut in truck productivity and force companies to employ more drivers to haul the same amount of freight... The CSA (Compliance, Safety, Accountability) 2010 initiative developed by the Department of Transportation (DOT), conlyded than 7 percent of the driver pool is responsible for most of the carrier infractions when companies are scored by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)... While it will take time to push all substandard drivers off the road, their eventual departure will curtail the available driver pool, the report said...
* New York - Debunk the myths and attack the driver retention problem
NY,USA -Fleet Owner, by Timothy Brady -Nov. 8, 2012: -- Driver turnover and retention in the trucking industry seems to be at an all-time high. The myth: Training more truckers will solve the driver shortage problem... Putting more unsuspecting, newly trained truckers on the road won’t solve the retention problem. If any other industry had annual employee turnover exceeding 100%, industry leaders would demand major changes... The fabrication: Some industry organizations and large carriers are perpetuating the myth that there’s a shortage of qualified, trained truckers... The truth is, many large carriers fail rudimentary principles of employee-contractor management. For example, lease-purchase plans put most of the fiscal responsibility on the trucker’s shoulders, and when he/she fails, the carrier not only loses a good, qualified driver, but goes immediately into the costly new-recruit cycle again. It costs about $20,000 to replace a trucker and that includes administrative costs, advertising, recruiting, and bringing the new driver to the point of generating a positive cash flow. This all contributes to a major money leak... The reality: There are millions of unemployed Americans, but the estimated truck driver shortage is nearly five times what it was in 2006. Doesn’t this show, statistically, that truck driving is no longer a desirable or sufficiently compensated occupation? ... Drivers wanted reasonable pay for all the time and work required to manage a truck on the road, consistent pay from week to week, and regularly scheduled time at home... A study about, has been virtually ignored by the industry...
* California - Comment - Ripped off drivers
San Marcos,CAL,USA -The Trucking Forum/Topix -Nov 6, 2012: -- "The driver shortage will continue as qualified pro drivers become disgusted with competing with low paid immigrunt "truckers" ... Tattoed all over their face and maybe belong to some gang....it looks like an insane asylum a the truckstops today...most normal working men and women dont really want to hang out with these low life sc..... ...all talkin spanish and using fake documents to pretend to belong here. They need to get these kooks on abuse back to their village where they can get back to chopping heads off ... doing what they were born to do..." - (Editor's note: Racist this man, isn't ? We do not agree at all with what this trucker said. But we die so he can express it.)
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